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Dedication Day - NBC-Washington - May 22, 1958 (Color Videotape)

Topics: Classic TV, 50's Television, 1950's, Fifties, 1958, Live TV, Color, NBC, WRC, Video, Videotape, Ampex, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert Sarnoff
Item Size: 701.6M

Dedication of NBC's new Washington, D.C. Facilities, housing NBC network and WRC-TV television studios on May 22, 1958. The program represents the earliest known color recording discovered to date. Recorded on 2" Quadruplex Videotape by Ampex VR-1000 series recorders.

The program starts in black and white, showing President Eisenhower arriving outside the WRC studios. Later inside, Robert Sarnoff, president of NBC, pushes a button signifying the inauguration of the WRCA new color studios. As he pushed the button, the color encoder switches from a mono picture to color.

For details of the restoration: http:QuadVideotapeGroup.com

Addeddate: 2010-10-02 05:56:55
Color: color
Ia_orig__runtime: 29 minutes 30 seconds
Identifier: DedicationDay-Nbc-washington-May221958colorVideotape
Run time: 29:30
Sound: sound